2010 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner
How To Live: Or, A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Sarah Bakewell
How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live? This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and exper…